When Assad realizes it's finally all over for him, one of, if not the, last steps, will be to offer "mutual aid" to Hezbollah in the form of the WMDs. Then, look out. He might even fire a few on his own people beore "checking out". Nothing would surprise me with him. Scary.

11:35 am December 9, 2012

LeeG wrote:

Would those be the WMDs the Syria got from Iraq?

11:47 am December 9, 2012

John Shniper wrote:

It is only a matter of time before Hezbollah gets Nuclear, biological AND chemical weapons for its genocide machine. Israel has to announce a doctrine of Nuclear Retaliation or occupy Lebanon! Just making deals which last for a week or so WILL NOT keep Israel in business. Of course, Hezbollah and Hamas are all to glad to get tens of thousands of THEIR OWN PEOPLE KILLED if that will feed their rise!! Israel just has to say NO to the double standards crowd which totally dominate the International Community and do what it takes to survive and LIVE WITH THE PARIAH STATUS if that is what it takes. Israel is a no show at International Sports competitions ANYWAY!! If it gets BARRED from the Olympics or the UN: SO WHAT!!

12:17 pm December 9, 2012

Mr. Jacobitsky wrote:

Israel is the only nuclear terrorist in the middle east. They have a monopoly on the first strike. Sooner or later they may have to pay for their belligerence and oppression toward their neightbors.

12:52 pm December 9, 2012

If Wishes were Horses wrote:

All this alarmism about Syria's chemical weapons is way overdone. Israel knows what's going on. If Syria was preping chemical weapons or seriously considering transfering them to Hezbollah, the IDF would be already be on high alert, They are not.

Does this really surprise anyone? I would expect Iran to want a piece of the Syrians expertise on chemical weapons for the support they gave them. I would not be surprised to see Assad going to Iran along with other members of his party as this collapses.

6:49 pm December 9, 2012

transfer? wrote:

email these WMDs or text them.......Mr.Idiot Ambassador?

6:56 pm December 9, 2012

Shiloh wrote:

This article fails to point out that the ranks of the Syrian rebels, backed by the Whitehouse, are filled with non-Syrian Al Qaeda ops.

Please explain to family members of the U.S. armed service who have lost loved ones, why the Whitehouse has aligned itself with an Al Qaeda initiative???

12:02 am December 10, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

Be sure . Even without chemical weapons thousands will be killed .

2:16 am December 10, 2012

GEORGA wrote:

IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POSITION IN THE CASE THE ISRAELI RED LINE IS CROSSED FIRST. IN ANY CASE FOR ISRAEL THE CONTEXT IS BEYOND DOUBT. IT IS IRAN WHO MOVES ACCORDING TO A CLEARLY AND OVERTLY DECLARED STRATEGY. AFTER ROCKETS SUPPLIED TO HIZZBULLAH AND HAMAS WITH LIVE PRACTICE OF THEIR USE, WE HAVE SEEN ADVANCEMENT OF IRAN BACKED TERROR GROUPS PENETRATING THE SINAI THAT IS AIMED TO DESTROY THE PEACE WITH EGYPT. ONE CAN THEREFORE BE SURE FOR THE NEXT MOVE TO BE CHEMICAL WEAPONS TRANSFER TO HIZBULLAH. THIS IS THE WAY IRAN BUYS TIME UNTILL IT REACHES NUCLEAR CAPABILITY. SO FAR THEY HAVE GIVEN ALL THE TIME THEY NEED. NO CLEAR RED LINE ON THE TABLE.
IN SUCH A CONTEXT WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA FEELS THAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE MOTIVATED TO AWARD ISRAEL WITH PEACE AND RECOGNITION?. THEY FEEL STRONGER THAN EVER ESPECIALLY FOLLOWING THE RECENT UN RESOLUTION. WHY ON EARTH ARE THEY EXPECTED TO TRADE THE BORDERS OF 1946 WITH THE 1967 ONES? IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO GET A LOGICAL ANSWER.

3:24 am December 10, 2012

Rabid Dog wrote:

The US tell Assad there'll be consequences if he uses chemical weapons on his own people. Anyone fancy a cigarette or two?

4:46 am December 10, 2012

Rad wrote:

Its just matter of time isreal will never win the situation in the middle east. Look at it this way, why is isreal allowed to kill thousands of palestinians and lebanese and use dirty mesiles on the poor people that use rocks and stones on there opposition? Because isreal go with the intention not just to kill but to wipe out a whole generation of people. My reason for saying isreal will not win and is only taken the lead by the surpport of the west is thatl lebanon and neighbouring countries know how isreal thinks even when the isrealies are sleeping they know whats going through the minds. The only peace isreal will get is to leave palestine in peace.

7:53 am December 10, 2012

RVN Draftee wrote:

Rad, what about the rockets the Palestinians were firing into Israel? Or perhaps that was only Israelis propaganda.

8:58 am December 10, 2012

Michael Rivero wrote:

Just as was the case in Iraq, Israel cheer-leads the lies that lead to war.

10:40 am December 10, 2012

To Michael......@858 wrote:

Funny, but I recall Clinton, Gore and the top democrats being the ones who constantly warned us of saddam and the dangers of his wmd.
Look it up.

10:42 am December 10, 2012

Morsi, was a negotiator in the gaza israel issue, right? wrote:

Explains why there was not a fair and balance settlement.
Fair = you stop firing at me, I stop firing at you.

Biased = open your borders to us, who are intent on destroying you, and we will stop firing on you.

10:43 am December 10, 2012

LOL wrote:

I should have said the "israel issue with hamas terrorists".

10:44 am December 10, 2012

Sooooo..... wrote:

Israel has to open their borders to hostile people.....in order to keep the US behind them?
That is soooooo Obama.

10:45 am December 10, 2012

over 34,000 already dead wrote:

Um...does anyone in this administration really care?

10:47 am December 10, 2012

To 1135 wrote:

Great point, as satellite views confirmed "things" being moved to syria from iraq, when we were threatening to come in.

Those nice Democrats, plus Clinton and Gore warned us about saddam and his wmd.
Looks like Bill was right.

10:48 am December 10, 2012

Clinton waited for the wrote:

next guy to handle it.

10:48 am December 10, 2012

Clinton also wrote:

had obl in his cross hairs.....and chose to let him run free.

12:44 pm December 10, 2012

RAD and other fools wrote:

people like you who encourage rockets to be fired at Israeli citizens and for babies to be decapitated are real scum
you, and people like you, are the reason that Israel will keep its Nuclear deterrent

12:49 pm December 10, 2012

To 1244 wrote:

RAD just does not get what Israel is....the only place in the middle east where anyone can worship whoever they desire...yes, even the Muslims.
Freedom.

You can get a death sentence in most of the rest of the middle east for worshipping anyone besides Allah.

1:46 pm December 10, 2012

Lawrence Beck wrote:

"Syria's the greatest danger to Israel's security! No, wait, Iran is! No, Hezbollah is!" Why do we pay billions each year to these paranoid clowns? What's sad is that, if the West's poster boys succeed in ousting Assad, those chemical weapons are going to end up in the hands of al Qaeda and the Salafists. That would be an improvement?

5:20 pm December 10, 2012

More-off wrote:

Lawrence Beck? You're "funny" point works against you. it is a concrete, undeniable and easily provable fact that every one of the outfits(they don't get 'nation' status from me...) you mentioned are advocates of the highest level racism existent in the world today. Do you understand that? Those that openly say "israel has no right to exist" but "we have the inalienable right to a NUCLEAR WEAPON" are garbage. If you are so morally compromised as to not understand, do what children do and ask yourself - would you want people living next to you torturing your children, raping your wife, and threatening to kill you every minute of every day of your life? Try for a straight answer...though its unlikely you're capable. So, to save everyone from a long substance-lacking reply, just pretend that the facts are the facts. You can recite party lines to yourself at night to re-cement the lies.

5:11 am December 11, 2012

More facts for the fools.. wrote:

Isreal is not a promise land for the jews( i dont know were you got that fact from ) moses was leading the jews to the promise land that when he died in palestine then the jews came along and said were he died was there land.... Besides it does matter who rules palestine it will still be the land of all religions. Besides understand one thing isreal does not have nuclear today to use on its neighbours its preparing for the west the day they decide not to stand by them anymore. If they use it on there nieghbours they will get the impact of it. Besides who called jesus a trator it was the jews. The bigest enemy to christianity is the jews. My god some of u live in the land of kookoo land..

3:31 pm December 29, 2012

The real story wrote:

The Arab spring inspired conflicts are clearly the result of a plot by Hillary Clinton to destroy the NFL. Hillary, hot for power after successfully destroying the best college football program in the country, set her sights on the greater targets of the NFL. She intended to begin by sabotaging the NFC East, as a centrally significant division of the league, by attacking countries which she could associate which each of those teams.

First, note the green flag of Gaddafi's Libya compared to the Philadelphia Eagle's colors. By destroying Libya and assassinating its leader, she was able to immediately deliver a successful Eagles team into mediocrity. The next target, as we can see from the stars on the flag of Syria, was intended to be the Dallas Cowboys. Assad's Syrian regime proved unexpectedly resilient, and the Cowboys were thus able to turn an unsuccessful season into a hopeful one right at the very end. The Redskins are clearly represented by the country of India, where in the gang rape cases we can already see the beginnings of instigation which would have been used to socially engineer the basis for a drone invasion into the country. The big target is of course Iran, which has the sideways G in the center of its flag to represent the defending champion New York Giants. Clinton sees this as the big prize, with leveling the Giants representing taking the backbone out of the division.

At the moment, the plot seems to be backfiring, with the weakened Cowboys-Dallas rivalry suddenly recovering to its former prominence. We might be close to reaching the end of the story, because Clinton only has a short time remaining to work her dark magic.

3:33 pm December 29, 2012

The real story wrote:

"Cowboys-Dallas" -> "Cowboys-Reskins"

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